Give me the open sleep, whose bed is earth, With airy ceiling pinned by golden stars, Or vaultage more confined, plastered with clouds! Your log-roofed barrack-sleep, 'twixt drum and drum, Suits men who dream of death, and not of love. Love cannot die, nor its exhausted life, Exhaling like a breath into the air, Blend with the universe again. It lives, Knit to its soul forever. Iena! Dead in the forest wild--earth cannot claim Aught but her own from thee. Sleep on! sleep on! IENA. (_Reviving_) What place is this? LEFROY. Who's there? What voice is that! IENA. Where am I now? LEFROY. I'll follow up that sound! A desperate hope now ventures in my heart! IENA. Help me, kind Spirit! LEFROY. I could pick that voice From out a choir of angels! Iena! [_Finds her behind the shrubbery._] Tis she! 'tis she! Speak to me, Iena-- No earthly power can mar your life again, For I am here to shield it with my own. IENA. Lefroy! LEFROY. Yes, he! IENA. My friends! found, found at last! LEFROY. Found, found my love! I swear it on your lips, And seal love's contract there! Again--again-- Ah me! all earthly pleasure is a toil Compared with one long look upon your face. IENA. O, take me to my friends! A faintness came Upon me, and no farther could I go. LEFROY. What spirit led you here? IENA. My little bark Is yonder by the shore--but take me hence! For I am worn and weak with wandering. LEFROY. Come with me then. _Enter the_ PROPHET, _who stalks gloomily across the stage--scowling at_ IENA _and_ LEFROY _as he passes out._ IENA. The Prophet! I am lost! LEFROY. This monster here! But he is powerless now. Fear him not, Iena! Tecumseh's wrath Burns 'gainst him still--he dare not do thee hurt. IENA. Must I endure for ever this fiend's hate? He stabbed me with his eye-- [_Swoons away._] LEFROY. O, horrible! Let us but meet again, and I shall send His curst soul out of this accursed world! [_Exit_ LEFROY, _carrying_ IENA.] SCENE EIGHTH.--THE HIGHWAY THROUGH THE FOREST LEADING TO FORT DETROIT--THE FORT IN THE DISTANCE; CANNON AND GUNNERS AT THE GATE. _Enter_ TECUMSEH, STAYETA, _and other Chiefs and Warriors._